advt.
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A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby, hot off the griddle," yowling lustily for "hand-knit woolies."
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Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead."
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In words first stirring, then discreet, then rational and, finally pious the advt. read: "Women Of The Country, Stop And Listen!"
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Another advt. told in quaint and cryptic English of silk stockings "which will not entangle your dress nor will they cause it to wear out."
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If I were to name the car I should have to write advt. after this article to keep within the law.
From The Killer by Stewart Edward White
Adverb; adversus=Against. ad val., ad valorem=According to value. advt.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Dear Sir: I read your advt in the Chicago Defender wanting laborers for foundry, ware house, and yard work with transportation paid.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
Mr. S. Lane-Poole has contracted to "do" a life of Lord Stratford, and, ergo, he condemns me in magistral tone and a style of uncalled-for impertinence, to act as his "advt."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
This was marked advt, to indicate the newspaper's neutrality in the matter.
From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White
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